Vulnerability in Kde

CVE-2000-0393

The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.

EPSS: 0.008 (53.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Kde — versions 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)